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Enhanced clinical competence in internal medicine nursingLaajuus (5 cr)

Code: GES0105A25S

Credits

5 op

Teaching language

  • Finnish

Objective

Students
• can identify their skills and enhance their knowledge of the specificities of nursing internal medicine patients
• can plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based care of internal medicine patients in different environments
• deepen their knowledge of the care of multimorbid internal medicine patients
• deepen their knowledge of the significance of pharmacotherapy and nutrition and fluid therapy in internal medicine
• can support and guide multimorbid customers/patients and their families using a variety of methods
• can assess continuity of care and treatment pathways
• can work ethically, in multiprofessional cooperation and in accordance with the principles of sustainable development

Content

• the specificities of care for internal medicine patients
• evidence-based nursing
• the different care environments for internal medicine patients (hospital, outpatient care, home hospital, outpatient clinics, nurse consultations, remote consultation)
• assessing the care needs of and caring for multimorbid customers/patients
• offering support and guidance to multimorbid customers/patients and their families
• pharmacotherapy and nutrition and fluid therapy
• continuity of care and care pathway
• ethics, multiprofessional cooperation and sustainable development